Government Shutdown

My letter to one of my US Senators. This shit is disgraceful.
BKb

Dear Senator Lankford, I am writing to express my feelings of disgust regarding your position on the shutdown of the US government. You seem to think that you have taken the high ground on an issue that has no high ground. All of the issues that both republicans and democrats are using to place their stake in the ground are things that all Americans should expect to he handled as a normal course of congressional business. It is what you are elected and paid to handle as part of governance.
Regardless of how you feel about any of these issues, none of them have the slightest to do with managing the fiscal business of our country. I won’t even mention the fact that this wouldn’t be necessary if the Congress had developed and produced an operating budget for the country as they are supposedly required to do constitutionally.
I am disgusted with all of you. At this point I wouldn’t vote for any of you for dog catcher. And what has happened in our federal government is also the reason our state has become an embarrassment. Get your stuff together, sir. All of you.

Respectfully,

Barry Bruton
Owasso

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I gotta admit that this stuff leaves me perplexed about your form of government. For better or worse, if the party in power in our govt can not get a budget bill passed, the government fails and an election will be called.

Good luck youse guys.

My solution would be a constitutional amendment passed that would deduct a month from the current term of ALL federally elected officials for each day that the governmentis shut down because of a lack of a budget.

BkB

As long as we amended it to read loose a month for each member that didn’t agree with the republican stance I’d be good.
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Are you campaigning, or is this really a Russian bot posing as our resident shit disturber?

BKB

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Originally Posted by johnboy

I gotta admit that this stuff leaves me perplexed about your form of government. For better or worse, if the party in power in our govt can not get a budget bill passed, the government fails and an election will be called.

Good luck youse guys.

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If only we could...


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I'm going to have to disagree with you guys today.

To be honest this is probably the biggest and most important congressional battle in my lifetime. It is one that should have been fought and decided decades ago.... but it wasn't. And now it is time to decide once and for all the long term direction of the nation. In my estimation the budget battle is a sideshow of scant significance compared to that of coming to an honest conclusion of the costs and benefits of immigration (both legal and illegal) AND who benefits from things as they stand. And who gets hurt.

Immigration and "free" trade... these issues aren't going away. They may well be the defining issues of our time.

Will

I can’t disagree that immigration and trade are important issues. Just wait until the Farm Bill and NAFTA come up for discussion and you’ll see.

I think though, that the failure of Congress to develop and pass a budget bill is what opens us up to these government shutdowns and is the real underlying reason that our military has been negatively affected. (that and over-deployment for 18 years) Constitutionally, that is really Congress’ number one responsibility. They, all of them, have failed the country in their constitutional duty. So it doesn’t really matter who we blame for the shut down of the government.

BKB

Here’s the ugly truth about immigration. Our only population growth comes from immigration amd the children of immigrants. The rest of us are I decline. So, if you’re counting on social security and Medicare being an important part of your retirement, and most working class Americans are, you better hope we keep the doors open. If not, you’ll be eating cat food or going the soy Kent green route.


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That is the Philip K Dick model of what will happen!

BKB